Kinda curious about this; what's the deal with folks cutting off the artist's name and site?

I read the "ads" argument in the comments, but I don't buy it as attribution isn't an advert. So what's it actually all about?

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[–] 45 points 7 months ago (5 children)

There's one singular vocal guy around that doesn't like that authors sign their work and thinks that's blatant and dishonest self-promotion.

That's all.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Even better, they think a signature is self promotion but that users should instead provide links to the creator's page because that isn't self promotion while not including a link themselves after cropping off the signatures.

    The user's logic makes no sense and they don't even follow it!

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    What's especially crazy is he does this to artists who make web comics, but when he posts news articles he posts a link to the article and sometimes an excerpt, and some of those include the names of the authors. So the only "ads" that count are the signatures/watermarks/socials on web comics.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    A user is going around trying to get a rise out of other users and it's working.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    It also doesn't help that the comm admin has been MIA for a few months. Imagine what would happen to your conservative community if you stopped moderating it for even a week.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My community is a pleasure to moderate actually I have had to do three moderation actions in the last three months.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Found this part really funny

    At the end, music don't have watermarks and neither do art. So why should comics have watermarks?

    Because is something that a lot of musicians do today, having a spundbite that they use in all their songs. There's this one CRRDR that uses the roadrunner bip-bip sound, and in Baile Funk every producer had his own that are integral part of the songs and sometimes DJs mix the soundbite in interesting ways

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    It's literally a troll doing a bit of trolling. Just block !Beep@Lemmus.org.

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